Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Politics

  • A Morally Justifiable Case of Late-Term Abortion

  • No One Else Could Have Beaten Hillary

    Publius Decius Mus makes a convincing case.

  • Trump Wins, and the Left Goes Bonkers

    Here is the delusional Paul Krugman soiling, once again, the already piss-poor Op-Ed pages of The New York Times.  His title is the hyperventilatory "Thoughts for the Horrified." The political damage will extend far into the future, too. The odds are that some terrible people will become Supreme Court justices. States will feel empowered to…

  • I Eat My Words!

    With pleasure.   In January, in Trump's Traction and Conservative Inaction, I wrote: . . . there is no way Trump can beat Hillary.  He has alienated too many groups, women and Hispanics to name two.  Add to that the fact that large numbers of conservatives will stay home, and Hillary is in like Flynn. …

  • Catholics Must Support Trump

    It is astonishing that there are Catholics who vote Democrat, when the Dems are the abortion party, and lately and increasingly a threat to religious liberty to boot.  How then could any practicing Catholic vote for Hillary or support Hillary by voting for neither Hillary nor Trump? So here's my final appeal on Election Day.…

  • Would You Have Nothing to Do with Politics?

    Having nothing to do with politics would make sense only if you could reasonably expect that politics would reciprocate and have nothing to do with you.

  • I May Have to Eat My Words

    In January, in Trump's Traction and Conservative Inaction, I wrote: . . . there is no way Trump can beat Hillary.  He has alienated too many groups, women and Hispanics to name two.  Add to that the fact that large numbers of conservatives will stay home, and Hillary is in like Flynn.  Mark my words.…

  • The Case Against Hillary Clinton

    Damning

  • Do You Care About the Rule of Law?

    Then you had better vote for Trump, characterological warts and all.   By the way, a vote for Trump is not an endorsement of his character, but of the ideas and policies he stands for.  As for you namby-pamby, quasi-conservative, crypto-quislings whose tender consciences cannot allow a vote for Trump, I ask you: will you feel…

  • Scholars and Writers for America

    Statement of Unity

  • The Clintons as Grifters

    Victor Davis Hanson: The Hillary/Bill fortune — generated by pay-for-play influence peddling on the proposition that Bill would return to the White House under Hillary’s aegis and reward friends while punishing enemies — hit a reported $150 million some time ago, a fortune built not on farming, mining, insurance, finance, high-tech, or manufacturing, but on…

  • Hillary Milhous Clinton

    John Fund explores the parallels between Nixon and Hillary, between Watergate and the e-mail scandal.

  • Religious Liberty and a Brooks Boner

    The Op-Ed pages of The New York Times are piss-poor to be sure, but Ross Douthat and David Brooks are sometimes worth reading.  But the following from Brooks (28 October) is singularly boneheaded although the opening sentence is exactly right: The very essence of conservatism is the belief that politics is a limited activity, and…

  • A Grave Matter

    It's a 'grave' matter when the dead vote, but apparently nothing to worry about as long as they vote Democrat.   The Dems take 'univeral' in 'universal suffrage' a bit too literally to include felons, illegal aliens, children, and the dead. UPDATE (1:20 PM) Via Bill Keezer: The Integrity of the Electoral Process Related articles…

  • Clinton’s State Department: A RICO Enterprise

    Andrew C. McCarthy ought to know. Damning.   As we go to press, the stunning news has broken that the FBI’s investigation is being reopened. It appears, based on early reports, that in the course of examining communications devices in a separate “sexting” investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the bureau stumbled on relevant…